Section 5.47.041. Sport fishing from commercially licensed vessels; charter vessel registration.

	(a)  A person may sport fish from a registered commercial salmon hand troll or power troll vessel.  
	(b)  Repealed 5/13/95.  
	(c)  A person who sport fishes from a vessel licensed for commercial salmon fishing, other than a charter vessel when paying clients are on board, shall, immediately upon bringing a salmon on board, mark the salmon by removing its dorsal (large back) fin.  
	(d)  Sport fishing from a commercially licensed vessel while commercially caught salmon are in possession is illegal in waters closed to commercial salmon fishing.  
	(e)  A commercially licensed vessel registered to fish commercially for shrimp, Dungeness crab, or Tanner crab may not be used to take that species for sport fishing purposes during the period starting 14 days before an opening and ending 14 days following the closure of an open commercial season for that species in the district, area, or areas for which the vessel is registered.  
	(f)  A person may not sport fish and commercial fish for salmon from the same vessel on the same day.  
	(g)  A person may possess sport-caught salmon on board a commercial salmon vessel while that vessel is engaged in commercial salmon fishing only if the salmon is preserved fish at the time the vessel is engaged in commercial salmon fishing. In this subsection, "preserved fish" has the meaning given in 5 AAC 75.995.  

Authorities

16.05.251

Notes

Authority

AS 16.05.251

History

Eff. 4/15/94, Register 130; am 5/13/95, Register 134; am 5/2/97, Register 142; am 5/25/2000, Register 154; am 7/13/ 2012, Register 203